Code rant

In this post I'm going to show how to add your own commands to a custom project type's context menu in Visual Studio. I've bee...

C++ was the writing on the wall for C. C is a phenomenally successful low level systems programming language. If you want to write an operat...

I while ago I blogged about REST . I was pretty excited about it at the time, it seemed to blow away a lot of the lava layers that have bee...

Recently I've been looking at Visual Studio Extensibility and specifically how to create my own custom project types. There are three fu...

The ASP.NET web service infrastructure provides a RPC style abstraction for web serivces. You write a web method that looks like any other C...

More browsing today on MSDN lead me to an interview with Wes Dyer taking about LINQ . He's one of the guys on the C# compiler team. A v...

Well it's back to work after a very nice two week break. I wrapped up my last contract with Ace Insurance in Crawley (hi guys!) three we...

If you spend any time working with Web Services or even just XML, you'll inevitably come into contact with XSD.exe and WSDL.exe , they ...

As Steve McConnel says in Code Complete , Managing complexity is the fundamental imperative of any software developer, but how do you do t...

I've been quite pleasantly surprised recently how easy it is to do impersonation in .net. The trick is a win32 api function that's n...